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| vikramkr Diglot Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6075 days ago 248 posts - 326 votes  Speaks: English*, Portuguese | Message 25 of 34 02 July 2009 at 10:43pm | IP Logged |
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I grew up with my parents speaking to me in Hindi. All of my Dad's relatives spoke to me
in Hindi as well. However, I never really ended up speaking back to them in Hindi. As a result, my comprehension abilities are of a high intermediate level and my speaking skills are poor. I imagine it wouldn't take too much time for me to become fluent, with these circumstances. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Feechy Newbie United States Joined 5637 days ago 18 posts - 18 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Arabic (Written), Papiamento | Message 26 of 34 04 July 2009 at 9:19am | IP Logged |
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I really could have learned Italian and Maltese. I actually spoke some Italian and Maltese until I was around 6 years old and then I forgot it bit by bit. But now, I'm hoping I can hold a basic conversation in Italian or Maltese by the end of the year. Edited by Feechy on 04 July 2009 at 9:20am 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Samual Newbie United Kingdom Joined 5950 days ago 37 posts - 39 votes Speaks: English* | Message 27 of 34 06 July 2009 at 1:18pm | IP Logged |
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French: my grandparents have lived there since before i can remember. There was talk of me going to live with them for a year and go to a French school when i was 10. It never happened, and i sooooooo regret it!
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| GoingGoingGone Newbie United States Joined 5674 days ago 28 posts - 39 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Italian, French, Swedish, Mandarin | Message 28 of 34 07 July 2009 at 5:33pm | IP Logged |
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I regret that in school rather than sticking with one or two languages and learning them in depth I took several different languages for shorter time periods. I wish someone had explained to me when I was a kid the importance of learning one or two languages well instead of "a year of this, a year of that". Now I remember almost nothing of any of them. The one I spent the most time on - 3 years - is the one I remember some of.
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| Ashley_Victrola Senior Member United States Joined 5712 days ago 416 posts - 429 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French, Romanian | Message 29 of 34 07 July 2009 at 6:23pm | IP Logged |
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I used to go to a school where they taught french K-8th grade. The idea being that once in High School you could then learn a 3rd language. I was very good at it. Anyway so when my parents got divorced when I was in 4th grade I had to go to public school and lost it all. I tried to keep reading books in it but I could only read children's books and I had no dictionaries because I was little and no one told me they had those and I had no teacher to help with pronunciation. Maybe if the internet had've been big then...anyway. I think that's why I have such a mad obsession with it now. Edited by Ashley_Victrola on 07 July 2009 at 6:24pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| jimbo baby! Senior Member United States Joined 5983 days ago 202 posts - 208 votes 2 sounds Speaks: English* | Message 30 of 34 08 July 2009 at 6:33am | IP Logged |
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I missed out on French in school. I was interested in becoming fluent but I became disenchanted with the way it was taught at school. It became another subject like math and science and then I became disinterested and only wanted to study just enough to get a decent grade. Sometimes my French teacher would see me in the hallway and she started speaking French to me. I did my best to answer back to her but I struggled so much that sometimes I answered back in English. Those were great opportunities that I wasted.
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| mrhenrik Triglot Moderator Norway Joined 6085 days ago 482 posts - 658 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, English, French Personal Language Map | Message 31 of 34 08 July 2009 at 6:55am | IP Logged |
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I wouldn't say you wasted it if your school system is half as bad as mine for teaching languages. I had German for three years and the only sentences I can stutter out if a German approaches me is "das is das papier", "scheisse um die ecke", "die kartoffeln tanzt sehr gut" and "ich nicht verstehe". Half of them have grammar that would make any native German cry.
I would like to perhaps pick up German again later though. It's a fun language. I wouldn't say I missed out on it, because I never started learning it. I learned a bit about it at school though. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| jimbo baby! Senior Member United States Joined 5983 days ago 202 posts - 208 votes 2 sounds Speaks: English* | Message 32 of 34 10 July 2009 at 8:18pm | IP Logged |
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School is good for learning grammar but not conversation. I think that's why it's wasted on school kids because no one wants to learn grammar when they're young. Eventually we will want to see how the language works after we learned some conversation skills.
What I regret is that I missed out on chances to converse with my teachers in the target language. They always seemed happy to engage me in their language but I wasn't really interested and I felt like it was a chore. There were also other opportunities I missed out on like not joining the French club and not going to class trips to France. It's really more than just what went on in the classroom that I feel I missed out on. I wish language learning appealed to me more when I was younger. Now I have a lot of catching up to do. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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